Top Ten Films of 2015

Carol Tod Haynes’ beautiful 50’s melodrama. My thoughts are here already but it really is magnificent. Inside Out Probably Disney Pixar’s greatest film to date, this is a profoundly moving and very funny tale of childhood, family and sadness. The fact that it’s technically a children’s film which features a scene around “abstract thought” and which doesn’t […]

Tod Haynes’ Carol

Carol

Ever since falling in love with Velvet Goldmine’s glamorous debauchery as an angst ridden teenager, I’ve followed the career of director Todd Haynes with excited interest. As Cate Blanchett said recently “he has the passion, hunger and recklessness of a student filmmaker but the master strokes of an auteur”. An auteur who has frequently been compared with […]